CVE-2017-11567

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 8.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mongoose Web Server before 6.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that modify Mongoose.conf via a request to __mg_admin?save. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code remotely.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-11567

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-09-07T13:29:00

Last Modified Date
2017-09-18T17:43:24

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-352	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:cesanta:mongoose_embedded_web_server_library::::::::	1	OR		6.8

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
6.8

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
6.4

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
8.8

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/3	Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MONGOOSE-WEB-SERVER-v6.5-CSRF-COMMAND-EXECUTION.txt	Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42614/	Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11567
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11567

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 08:37:07				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 20:38:11	2017-09-07T13:29Z	2017-09-07T13:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 20:38:11		2017-09-18T17:43:24	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 20:38:11		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated